Roman Reaches L2, Dark Lensing Discovery & Blue Origin's Mars Contract

Roman Telescope Reaches L2

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached its permanent home at Lagrange Point 2, roughly one million miles from Earth, and the commissioning phase has begun. That shift matters.

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Dark Object Detected via Lensing

While Roman is just starting to look, a separate team using a global network of radio telescopes has already found something striking. They've detected the lowest-mass dark object ever identified, roughly one million times the mass of our Sun, using gravitational lensing.

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Falcon 9 B1063's 35th Flight

SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster B1063 completed its thirty-fifth flight on September second, deploying twenty-seven Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg. Thirty-five flights from a single booster would have been an extraordinary claim five years ago.

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ISS All-Female Spacewalk

On September first, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot completed a six hour and forty-nine minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station. They replaced a retroreflector on Harmony Node 2 and installed a camera.

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Blue Origin Mars Orbiter Contract

Blue Origin has been awarded a seven hundred million dollar NASA contract to build a Mars Telecommunications Network orbiter, with delivery required by December thirty-first, twenty twenty-eight. This is a critical infrastructure play.

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Rocket Lab and Tiangong Updates

Rocket Lab launched the Strix radar satellite for Japanese company Synspective on September second from New Zealand. It's part of a planned constellation of around thirty synthetic aperture radar satellites designed to image Earth in all weather conditions, day or night.

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